Thank you Olaf, this kind of donations are wonderful examples for other
countries too. I've just reported it to Italian libraries major list, after
a discussion some weeks ago about a regional digital library [1] and its
choice of CC BY-NC-SA licenses insted of PD.
It's a long road for us...

bye
virginia https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Virginia_Gentilini

[1] http://bibliotecadigitale.regione.liguria.it


On 22 July 2015 at 18:44, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote:

> Nice work.
>
> Scans of maps/atlantes are some of the highest resolution images that
> most Wikimedia Commons users might have reason to browse. They are a
> good test of systems, especially the in-built zoom viewer!
>
> I have sub-categorized collections by careful pre-processing of the
> XML files that feed into the GLAMwiki toolset. In practice there is
> little harm in getting on with a batch upload without categorization
> being fully worked out, so long as some thought (and resources) are
> put into "housekeeping" tasks in the days after upload. You may want
> to add some of the top categories to the GLAM dashboard[1] so that you
> can easily track and report on usage and volunteer engagement. The
> simplest recommendation I make for volunteer categorizers, is to read
> up on cat-a-lot and work out how to use the "insource:" option for
> searches. Adding hundreds of images to a category, or moving them
> between categories then becomes a quick and simple.[2][3]
>
> Perhaps one other thing I would like to suggest as an improvement is
> approaching the community on the Map workshop[4] and seeing if some
> volunteers would like to suggest a best practice for adding
> geocoordinates to the images, possibly creating a volunteer backlog to
> check these by hand.
>
> Links
> 1. GLAM Dashboard
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/GLAM_dashboard
> 2. Advanced Commons searching
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch
> 3. VisualFileChange tool
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:VisualFileChange.js
> 4. Map workshop
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Graphic_Lab/Map_workshop
>
> Thanks,
> Fae
> --
> [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
>
> On 22 July 2015 at 16:54, Olaf Janssen <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...
> > Last week the national library of the Netherlands (KB) donated over 3100
> images from 3 historic atlases (period 1690-1750) to Commons.
> > Each atlas has its own category
> > ·         Category:Atlas Schoemaker (2579 images)
> > ·         Category:Atlas_van_der_Hagen (446 images)
> > ·         Category:Atlas_Beudeker (133 images)
> ...
>
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